Commentaries on American Law, Volume 3Little, Brown,, 1884 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abbott on Shipping acceptance acceptance supra protest acceptor admiralty Allen apply authority Bank Barb barratry bill of exchange bind bottomry Boulay-Paty bound cargo charter party cited Code Comm commercial common common law Company Conn contract Court creditors damages debt decision declared discharge dissolution doctrine drawer Emerigon England English English law entitled equity Exch firm foreign freight Gray held holder Indian indorser interest Johns joint Justice Story land liable lien Lord Lord Eldon Lord Mansfield maker marine maritime law Mass master ment merchant navigable negotiable notice Ohio St Oleron ordinances owner partner payable payment Penn peril person Peters port Pothier principle profits promissory note purchase river Roman law rule seamen Smith statute Story on Bills Story on Partn supra tion trade Traité United Valin vessel voyage wages Wend York
Popular passages
Page 617 - ... without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water, to the prejudice of other proprietors, above or below him, unless he has a prior right to divert it, or a title to some exclusive enjoyment. He has no property in the water itself, but a simple usufruct while it passes along. 'Aqua currit et debet currere ut currere solebat
Page 317 - The liability of the owner of any vessel for any embezzlement, loss or destruction by any person of any property, goods or merchandise, shipped or put on board of such vessel, or for any loss, damage or injury by collision, or for any act, matter or thing, loss, damage or forfeiture, done, occasioned or incurred, without the privity or knowledge of such owner or owners, shall in no case exceed the amount or value of the interest of such owner in such vessel and her freight then pending.
Page 342 - It appears to us that the proper question for the jury in this case, and indeed in all others of the like kind, is, whether the damage was occasioned entirely by the negligence or improper conduct of the defendant, or whether the plaintiff himself so far contributed to the misfortune by his own negligence or want of ordinary and common care and caution, that, but for such negligence or want of ordinary care and caution on his part, the misfortune would not have happened.
Page 537 - They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion...
Page 218 - That no bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation, or conveyance of any vessel, or part of any vessel of the United States, shall be valid against any person other than the grantor or mortgagor, his heirs and devisees, and persons having actual notice thereof; unless such bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation, or conveyance be recorded in the office of the Collector of the Customs where such vessel is registered or enrolled...
Page 559 - The preceding section shall not be construed to extend to [crimes committed by one Indian against the person or property of another Indian...
Page 318 - ... for the purpose of apportioning the sum for which the owner of the vessel may be liable among the parties entitled thereto.
Page 540 - ... universal conviction that the Indian nations possessed a full right to the lands they occupied, until that right should be extinguished by the United States, with their consent...
Page 400 - Interest does not necessarily imply a right to the whole or a part of a thing, nor necessarily and exclusively that which may be the subject of privation, but the having some relation to, or concern in, the subject of the insurance...
Page 709 - Know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall bear for the lands which I claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the customs and services which I ought to do, at the terms assigned, so help me God and His saints"; and he shall kiss the book.